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Posting just to put them on the screen:

https://www.wispolitics.com/2022/fusion ... -emissions

Yo, they are related to this group here:
https://burningplasma.org/resources/ref ... Forest.pdf

Looks a bit like what Lockheed Martin was doing a few years back.

choff wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 09, 2022 1:48 am

Looks a bit like what Lockheed Martin was doing a few years back.

Not really. This is a tandem mirror machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aulbz5kJNAI

First video I've seen on them so far. Wisconsin High-field Axisymmetric Mirror (WHAM), it's got a great acronym.

High field magnets delivered:

https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commo ... am-project

I said it many times. With availability of High Field HTSC magnets almost any fusion design presented in the last 50 years will become feasible.

Economical and practical? That will be the real issue that will determine the winner.

Giorgio wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2024 8:57 am

I said it many times. With availability of High Field HTSC magnets almost any fusion design presented in the last 50 years will become feasible.

Economical and practical? That will be the real issue that will determine the winner.

Well, there has been to many promises over the years and to many delusive declarations. I have spoken to elderly engineers that attended to Alfven's lectures on fusion in the seventies.

The man completely deceived the politicians since they could not interpret a log-scale diagram. He made them believe that if he only got the money he asked for and a decade or so and the problem would be solved.

A referendum on nuclear power was kept in Sweden in the year of 1980 and it was decided that nuclear power should be fased out by the year 2010.

There were a lot of popular debate books published before the referendum. When I started to become interested in energy issues in my youth during the eighties I read many and remember them proclaiming the firm belief that thirty years from now fusion will be ready.

What fusion needs now is a robust demonstration of net energy gain in a contraption at least remotely resembling a useful power source. Not labcoats and incomprehensible articles in obscure journals.

Munchausen wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2024 10:41 am

A referendum on nuclear power was kept in Sweden in the year of 1980 and it was decided that nuclear power should be fased out by the year 2010.

Got same experience in Italy. Referendum in 1987 to make the country "Nuclear free".
It was my first vote and the first time I realized that I belonged to a very small minority of people with a long vision for the future and a free brain.
It was also the moment when I decided that I would not put Italy in the center of my future businesses. I never regretted that decision.

Munchausen wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 15, 2024 10:41 am

What fusion needs now is a robust demonstration of net energy gain in a contraption at least remotely resembling a useful power source. Not labcoats and incomprehensible articles in obscure journals.

I mostly agree on all your points and the main argument of my previous post was just that. Technology for High Field HTSC and HV Feedthrought is now mature enough to give us the tools to transform almost every old fusion design into a feasible machine.
I personally don't see anymore an issue with technology, to me now is just an investments issue.

I strongly believe that in the coming 10 years (real ten years, not fusion years), we will finally see what we all have been waiting for.

Giorgio wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:06 pm

Technology for High Field HTSC and HV Feedthrought (sic)

Would this include this forum's namesake? I don't know of a single person here who wouldn't want to see a Polywell roar back to life.

usesbiggerwords wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:19 pm

Would this include this forum's namesake? I don't know of a single person here who wouldn't want to see a Polywell roar back to life.

To the best of my knowledge the high voltage feedthrough is a statement on X from the Avalanache Energy corporation and no published artifact.

The name Moein Borghei comes to my mind.

The Polywell has been declared officially dead following a doctorship in Australia. The potential well could not be created at a reasonable energy expense.

Munchausen wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:25 pm

The Polywell has been declared officially dead following a doctorship in Australia.

Good to know. RIP dear friend.

Go Helion Go!

Munchausen wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:25 pm

[The Polywell has been declared officially dead following a doctorship in Australia. The potential well could not be created at a reasonable energy expense.

No, the Richard Bowden-Reid research had little to do with the working mechanism of a properly designed and constructed Polywell.
What they tested was a completely different apparatus as I pointed out in the three posts I made at that time in this thread HERE.

Munchausen wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:25 pm

To the best of my knowledge the high voltage feedthrough is a statement on X from the Avalanache Energy corporation and no published artifact.
The name Moein Borghei comes to my mind.

Correct, Moein Borghei is the guy, and for what I know there is already several test objects that has been tested and they have been offering some of them also to other institutions for experimental runs.

Moein Borghei is still developing this new concept that is a real leap in the HV Feedthrough technology.

usesbiggerwords wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 4:19 pm

Giorgio wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 16, 2024 2:06 pm

Technology for High Field HTSC and HV Feedthrought (sic)

Would this include this forum's namesake? I don't know of a single person here who wouldn't want to see a Polywell roar back to life.

I believe so. Polywell would greatly benefit from both technologies.
The issue I see now is a lack of understanding from many VC/financing entities on how these technologies could actually bring back to life machines where research stopped for lack of results due to the technological limitations of the time.
I hope that once the fusion taboo will be broken someone will give Polywell another attempt.